Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism
The Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism is a German research institute affiliated with the Dresden University of Technology, devoted to research on totalitarianism and comparative studies of dictatorships, particularly communism and fascism/nazism and comparative analyses. Named in honour of Hannah Arendt, the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism, the institute was founded by a decision of the Landtag of Saxony shortly after the fall of communism and opened in 1993. In its first two decades of existence, the main focus has been on the former East Germany and post-communist studies; since the 2010s the institute has also strengthened its research on the Nazi era. Since 2017, is the institute's director.
